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Wednesday, September 05, 2012

Some things we have made

Since Sophie got her first AG doll I have made a LOT of little things that I wanted to share in more detail. Most of these items you can see in our doll house or in other photos on this blog. I will try to give a description of how I did these so that you can try it on your own.

This first picture is some mini whisks I made with craft wire. I think these are self explanatory. I just used craft wire and looped it around my fingers. I squashed one end and wrapped it with some more wire.

My second wire creation is a mini Eiffel Tower. This was a little harder. I looked at a picture and just simplified it into this. Sorry I can't be more specific.

These are doll lamps I made from battery powered candles and small candle sticks. The lamp on the left has a paper cup shade I covered in fabric.

The lamp on the right I curled a wire around the candle flame/bulb and kept making it spiral out into a bigger circle. I stitched some fabric to my wire spiral.

This is a coffee table I made from some scrap wood and some coat hooks. You could easily use a pre-cut piece of wood from the craft store.

Here is a view of the bottom

This is a rug I made out of blue jean scraps. I painted both sides with acrylic paint and then added a pattern. This is one of the rugs in our doll kitchen.

This is our super easy doll lantern. This has led to some variations.

A variation of the lantern. The top is a lid from a hair product can. I just added some sticker gems. We use this as a coffee table lamp or side lamp.

This little lidded box is found in the craft store made of brown pressed paper/cardboard.
I glued fabric to it and added some ribbon.

This is a little sewing kit I made for a friend of Sophie. I saw these tiny wooden spools at the craft store and wrapped them with thread. I wound up some embroidery thread into balls to make knitting yarn. I added some pins to make needles. I snipped off the sharp points so no one would get pricked.

Aw crap, girl. I already have a hard time throwing things away! :) LOL!!! My daughter has friends that have or are getting these dolls. "Mom, can you do this?" We had a My Twinn, so we made lots of stuff, but that was BP, before pinterest...this is like grown up Barbie. I have pinned so many ideas, but the lantern was so stinkin cute!! I guess that I will practice on the friendbabies and wait for grandbabies. Thanks for all the ideas! Hmmm,I made a swing bed, need to go to Anawhite and get furniture ideas. Dang pinterest! I need to sew.

If you go back and look at the photo, you will see the 3 pieces I used. A battery votive candle, a medicine cup and a prescription bottle lid. I just hot-glued these together after painting the lid and candle sides.